Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Prison (Amendment) Rules 2007 and shall come into force on 1st November 2007.

Amendment of the Prison Rules 1999

2. The Prison Rules 1999( 2 ) are amended as follows.

3. In rule 79—

(a) in paragraph (1) for “board of visitors” substitute “independent monitoring board”;

(b) for paragraph (3) substitute—

“ (3) A member of the board shall have access to the records of the prison, except that members of the board shall not have access to any records held for the purposes of or relating to conduct authorised in accordance with Part 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ( 3 ) . ”

4. For rule 82(1)(b)(i) substitute—

“ (i) in rule 81 the reference to a governor shall include a reference to a controller appointed by the Secretary of State under section 85(1)(b) of the 1991 Act; and ” .